Where Extra Credit Comes From

Extra effort.

If you missed an assignment this semester, or turned anything in late, there is a chance to improve your final grade.

There are two options for extra credit. If you choose to take on one of these assignments, they need to be submitted NO LATER THAN MAY 5.

OPTION ONE

This week, attend Carl Hancock Rux's Poesia Negra at REDCAT.

Write a 2-page response paper on the show.

OPTION TWO

If you have crew commitments, and can't get down to REDCAT, the other option is to do an artist interview.

Identify a student artist who worked in a major way on one of the shows this semester : Machine Orchestra, Henry V, Adam and Eve, Kenwood Wilderness, Dice Thrown, Sun, or Bitter Tears of Petra van Kant.

Formulate 10 questions you'd want to ask that artist about themselves, and about the project.

Conduct the interview. Write a 2-page response paper. Instead of transcribing their answers, process what you heard and include your thoughts/reactions.

Response Paper Assignment #1 (Due Feb 17 in class)

Collage: "an assemblage or occurrence of diverse elements or fragments in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition." 

For this assignment we would like you to create your own theatrical collage by combining found texts from a play (of your choosing) and a newspaper:

Choose material from both sources and collage/combine/remix/mash-up the language into a new play.  This new "script" can be in the form of a conventional play (characters, dialogue, stage directions, etc.), or a new experimental form of your own  invention. 

Use of word processors, printers, scissors, glue, tape, paint is all fair game. The resulting collage should fit on a single piece of paper.

A note about doing the assignment: consider the meaning of the texts in their original context, and how you transform that meaning by combining them together with your own ideas.

Some interesting sources related to this work:

• Joseph Cornell
• Janie Geiser
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
• DJ Danger Mouse
• Charles Mee
• Surrealists (Exquisite Corpse)
• William S. Burroughs Cut-up Technique
• Wooster Group
• Found Magazine